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Mary’s Wedding Quilt

July 16, 2009

Remember this lovely little stack from my new favorite crap craft store? I sewed like a maniac and now its a quilt for my sweet sister in law’s wedding gift. It was between making her a quilt or buying floor mats for her car ( n.o.t. my idea). Needless to say the quilt won.

The quilt measures about 67” by 80”, perfect size for a 2 person couch quilt, or draped over the end of a bed. Here’s my measurements if you want to make your own.

For the inner border you’ll need:

1- 4.5” square

2- 2.5” by 4.5” strips

2- 2.5” by 8.5” strips

Sew short sides on first, then top and bottom pieces. If you are not using 1/4” foot (like I wasn’t) you will get some hangover in your strips that you’ll have to trim. The seam allowance on a regular foot is more like 5/16” or 6/16” in my case, so slightly larger than 1/4”. So if your strips seem way too long, especially in the outer border, that is probably why.

For the outer border you’ll need:

2- 2.5” by 8.5” strips.

2- 2.5” by 12.5” strips.

Your finished block should measure 12.5”. See that little bit of hangover on the top and bottom of my block? That’s because I didn’t use my 1/4” foot, so my finished block was more like 12”. Which isn’t a big deal unless your using a (real) pattern or you’re concerned about the final size.

Now square up your blocks. I made 30 blocks, I used about 4 yards of fabric for my blocks. The sashing strips were 1.5” cut, so 1” finished. The white border strips were 2” cut. When your using thin stashing strips like this its important to pin and line up your blocks as you sew your rows together. If not you can really tell when your blocks don’t line up perfectly. And unpicking stitches is not that much fun….as I’m sure we all know very well.

By the way Ben did fabulous on our flight to Denver on Monday. The travel fairies must like me because we sat by a Nun. You can bet she was prayin’ like a mad woman when she saw who was sitting next to her. And luckily all went smoothly and I only had a few glares in my direction, so we’re improving. 🙂 Have a great weekend!

what a great gift! It looks like you stippled the quilt-right? I'm trying to get some confidence to try it out again. My stippling adventure looked great on the quilt top I worked on until I turned it over and the tension was all off. It's hard for me to want to try my hand at it again. Maybe my machine's not up for the challenge…

I love this quilt. I love all of your quilts! Every time I see one I say to myself "oooh, that will be the next quilt I make". Every time! I can't even remember anymore where I found your blog but I am so happy I did.

I love this quilt! I want to try my hand at one, and I'm a complete newbie, so I have kind of a dumb question. 🙂 Do you plan out your blocks, like where each color will be first? Or do you just start putting colors together into blocks and then arrange them once they're all done? Does that make sense? 🙂

I'm so glad you posted this! I am fairly new to quilting and would like to make matching quilts in these very colors for my two youngest boys that share a bedroom. Their carpet is a aqua, brown, tan berber and the walls are tan. I was really hoping to find a quilt tonight in these colors and I did!

As always, I love this quilt. I was thinking about doing something kind of similar to this for my son's quilt (except with more of a repeating pattern like your orange quilt – but not with white). I would like to add sashing in between the blocks, like you did here. Sashing seems a little confusing to me – like how do I make sure I line up both the horizontal blocks and the vertical blocks. Do you know of any helpful tutorials for this? laurasharbaugh@gmail.com

The quilt you made for your sister in law…loved it..thanks for the directions. I made a baby quilt for my new granddaughter but am stuck on how to quilt…did you free motion it…what color threads..multicolor ? It turned out so beautiful I am scared to quilt it. Do you have. Any close ups of the quilting? Thanks Cindy

Thanks for your darling quilt pattern. you are such an inspiration to me I love your beautiful pieces. Thanks so much. I made my daughter a quilt for her bridal shower with pinks and purples, silver and greens.